30 Rock and Wire top WGA awards
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Never let a strike get in the way of a good party?
The Writer’s Guild of America held its annual awards in New York, shelling out accolades to 30 Rock and The Wire as Best Comedy and Dramatic Series.
Mad Men won Best New Series.
Other prizes went to The Sopranos, The Simpsons and The Colbert Report.
30 Rock defeated NZ comedy Flight of the Conchords. New episodes of the Tina Fey comedy air on Seven, Monday night at 11:30pm.
Full winners:
DRAMATIC SERIES
THE WIRE, Written by Ed Burns, Chris Collins, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon, William F. Zorzi; HBO
COMEDY SERIES
30 ROCK, Written by Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Dave Finkel, Daisy Gardner, Donald Glover, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner; NBC
NEW SERIES
MAD MEN, Written by Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner; AMC
EPISODIC DRAMA – any length – one airing time
THE SECOND COMING (THE SOPRANOS), Written by Terence Winter; HBO
EPISODIC COMEDY – any length – one airing time
THE JOB (THE OFFICE), Written by Paul Lieberstein & Michael Schur; NBC
LONG FORM – ORIGINAL – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times
PANDEMIC, Written by Bryce Zabel & Jackie Zabel; Hallmark Channel
LONG FORM – ADAPTATION – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times
THE COMPANY: A STORY OF THE CIA, Teleplay by Ken Nolan, Based on the novel by Robert Littell; TNT
ANIMATION – any length – one airing time
KILL GIL VOLUMES 1&2 (THE SIMPSONS), Written by Jeff Westbrook; FOX
COMEDY/VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES
THE COLBERT REPORT, Written by Bryan Adams, Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich Dahm, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Peter Gwinn, Barry Julien, Jay Katsir, Laura Krafft, Frank Lesser, Tom Purcell, Allison Silverman; Comedy Central
(*Editor’s Note: There are no nominations this year in the Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials category.)
DAYTIME SERIALS
THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS, Written by Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Jeff Gottesfeld & Cherie Bennet, Bernard Lechowick, James Stanley, Natalie Minardi Slater, Lynsey Dufour, Marina Alburger, Sara Bibel, Janice Ferri Esser, Eric Freiwald & Linda Schreiber, Joshua McCaffrey, Sandra Weintraub; CBS
CHILDREN’S SCRIPT – EPISODIC & SPECIALS
LOOK WHOSE NOT TALKING (FLIGHT 29 DOWN), Written by D. J. MacHale; Discovery Kids
CHILDREN’S SCRIPT- LONG FORM OR SPECIAL
JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD, Teleplay by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan and Max Enscoe & Annie deYoung, Story by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan; Disney Channel
VIDEOGAME WRITING
DEAD HEAD FRED, Written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan, D3 Publisher
DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS
RETURN OF THE TALIBAN (FRONTLINE), Written by Martin Smith; PBS
DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
BILLY STRAYHORN: LUSH LIFE (INDEPENDENT LENS), Written by Robert Levi and Robert Seidman; PBS
TELEVISION NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN OR BREAKING REPORT
AMISH SCHOOL SHOOTING (WORLD NEWS WITH CHARLES GIBSON), Written by Josh Landis, Joel Siegel, Julia Kathan, Charles Gibson; ABC
TELEVISION NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE (GOOD MORNING, AMERICA), Written by Mary Pflum; ABC
Source: wga.org